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Well, that could explain why Henry and Walter have so many things in common despite Henry being supposedly trapped in his room and Walter allegedly being the real killer. They both prefer to be isolated from people, and more importantly they have serious issues with women. I'm not saying the "Henry is the real killer" is false, but let's remember that Walter ''chose'' all of his victims, including Eileen, so why would he pick one victim, more importantly the last and most important victim, randomly? They must have went to the cult together, because how would Walter know that Henry would be a good candidate for the Receiver of Wisdom? Just like Walter, Henry was gaven an oppurtunity to experience the real world when he grew up, so he just decided to go to school and get a good job and live a normal life instead of giving in to that cult's bullshit. He probably wasn't the only cult orphan that grew up to be a functioning member of society. However, he couldn't forget his life in the cult, and when he got into the real world, it probably wasn't to kind to him either. So he subconsciously hates the world too, probably even more than Walter Sullivan, and has decided to work a job and avoid any kind of contact with humanity whatsoever. The monstrous versions of men (monkeys), women (nurses), children (two headed babies), dogs (demon hounds); even to small stuff like mosquitoes (bats), and even the demonic fungus is how he views things. The whole entire game is in his head; when these so called monsters attack him he is really hallucinating. In reality, they are not being hostile to Henry, but he is being violent to them. He isn't proud of his childhood; that's why he tries to block out all conscious knowledge of his childhood and act like he's oblivious to it, just like he tried to block out everything about Walter by trying to act like he can't read that childish writing in Forest World. Isn't it kind of odd in the endings where he lives, he goes on about his life like nothing ever happened despite being allegedly locked in his room for five consecutive days and encountering those "creatures"? Because as I stated earlier, the whole game was in his head; a person with schizophrenia can't tell no cop or supernaturalist of what they saw because it wasn't there in the first place. Just like Walter Sullivan, Henry probably specialized in the dark arts too hence, him trying to subconsiously complete the 21 sacraments and him delving so deeply in his psyche, not Walter's psyche as we are mislead to believe. Him being the "Reciever of Wisdom" also meant him reliving the past he tried so hard to block out, that's why he's taken to the orphanage he was raised in and the water tower prison too, to remind him of his former life that he apparently tried to block out. He stalked Cynthia after he saw her enter through his apartment that's why he ended up there, and he was so surprised by her straightforward courtship that he kills her; this is similar to a situation in a story called "Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado", with the only difference being that the protagonist was allegedly insulted. As for Richard, I think he just didn't like him; that's why he hunted him down like an animal. He tried to get to know everyone by apparently going through their apartments and even reading those bios on the painting in that artist's house.

He could be another form of Walter Sullivan. That picture of a little boy on the dresser had blonde hair and Henry has brown hair, so how could that be Henry Townsend when he was little? Henry's origins are never explained or even hinted at one bit because he doesn't have any, similar to Maria in [=SH2=]; Mary and Maria look similar and Henry and Walter act similar. Walter despises his childhood and tries to block out any conscious knowledge of it whatsoever evidenced by Henry never letting the player know about his early life and Henry!Walter trying to pretend like he can't read his own handwriting. The game player doesn't know how the Ritual of the Holy Assumption works or what it's really supposed to do, but we do know that it gives you supernatural abilities as well as possible immortality. Also, the Ritual of the Holy Assumption can be used on a dead person, as shown in [=SH2=] when Earnest and James used it to bring a loved one back. We also know Walter Sullivan is capable of many supernatural "godly" feats because of it, that even includes shapeshifting. So he took the form of another man so that everyone wouldn't know that the "Walter Sullivan murderer" was still at large. While he assumed the Henry Townsend persona, he apparently graduated from school and got a job and a home that he believed to be his "real mother" (Room 302). Instead of living like a smelly stinking hobo while he was still human, he has decided to live with his supposed mother (Room 302), waiting for the day he will encounter the appropriate people to sacrifice to his mother. Also, we know that the people Henry (Walter Sullivan) meets is people that Walter Sullivan knew in his life ime, so what does he do? Trap them in his mind and hunt them down and kill them; that could explain how Andrew Desalvo was trapped in a deserted forgotten water tower prison. This is possible because Walter's nightmare world can extend beyong South Ashfield Heights. Living a normal life has caused Walter to get a grip on reality and become at least somewhat sane; that's why Henry (Walter) acts like a normal human being instead of some silly man with an apparent mental disorder. He remembers the kindness Eileen showed him at the train station, so after he assaults her, he tries to abandon his desire to complete the 21 Sacraments despite her fitting the Mother theme (Mother means she's the mother in her human form); Eileen could be the only victim Walter cared about. We see the remorse Walter (Henry) feels when Henry sees the X-rays and wonders if Eileen is okay. The supposed Walter Sullivan that tries to kill Henry we see is the physical manifestation of the cult-inflicted insanity that Walter Sullivan is trying to surpress. The Walter attacking Henry is Walter surpressed insanity and his killer instincts trying to take back over; that could explain why Henry doesn't take any real surprise in seeing it, because he already knows what it is. Walter is now trapped in the nightmare world in which he used to hunt down his prey by his own insanity; in so many words, he is trapped in his own mind. He must now fight his way to the bottom to seek the truth. We know from reading Joseph's diary that he became obsessed with Walter Sullivan and his ten murders and he knows every little thing about him; when Joseph died, he became a part of Walter's psyche as well. So now Walter must fight against all the people he killed as ghosts so he can meet the ghost of Joseph and ask him what to do. Even though he is trying to abandon all the bullcrap the cult instilled in his mind, he apparently still has some serious problems with society. Those loud obnoxious monkey creatures are in reality human adult males which he sadistically kills. Furthermore, we know that Walter has a serious problem with animals (specifically dogs) because he had a bad experience with his first encounter with animals in Steve Garland's pet shop, hence him killing the store owner to get his heart and him killing up every animal in there despite that part not being necessary, so what does he do every time he sees a dog? Kill it. We also know Walter has a serious problem with women due to their female parts, so when he sees them he visualizes them as repulsive, disgusting, inferior, dumb, and hostile creatures while he kills them. Those bats are just mosquitoes but his psyche is so disgusted by outside creatures that it manifests it into the ugliest thing it can. He has a thing against children too, because those two headed babyish monsters could be normal children; note how they aren't as repulsive or even as seemingly violent as the other monsters, because Walter doesn't hate children as much. Walter has a renouned warped psyche, so when these monsters are attacking him, he is really hallucinating. "Henry" stated that "if you die in this world, you die in the real world too", so that means South Ashfield is possesed by Walter's evil psyche as well. Basically it's like another Silent Hill. The Crimson Tome could be some symbollic or self mental exorcism. After Joseph informs Walter how to perform it, he doesn't just go and fight his insanity. By Walter meeting Joseph, he gained his wisdom, and Joseph knows everything about Walter. It's possible that Joseph investigated a child being abandoned in South Ashfield Heights in his past as well. After Walter inherits Joseph's knowledge, he seeks the truth about what happened to him when he was a baby before confronting his ultimate self. When Walter comes faces to face with himself, his personal demon tells him he is the reciever of wisdom. That means he knows the truth, hence him inheriting it from Joseph. Room 302 wasn't his mother and basically Silent Hill Smile Support Society was bullcrap. He must now choose between letting go of the past and moving on, or punishing the world for its sins and plunging it into hell while he rests in peace. As a previous troper stated earlier, the hauntings represent the characters' own will to complete the 21 Sacraments, and if Eileen lives the "Other" dies hands down. If Eileen lives, Walter will feel like maybe there is something else to live for and will completely abandon his will to complete the 21 Sacraments, but if she dies, that will be much harder.

* When I stated that Henry (Walter Sullivan) was the reciever of wisdom that meant he discovered an ultimate deep mind shattering truth, he recieved the truth in so many words. That's why you get a chance to fight him after you've discovered all the dead hanging bodies, which is really the ugly truth. Now since he's gotten a revelation of some kind he has the power to complete the 21 sacraments. We know that when Walter commits suicide again it's very nasty, when the radio person says the dead body was disfigured beyond recognition, but it's not really for killing him. Him dying again is him and coming back to life is the final offering to the ritual. First he had to die in his human form to become the eleventh victim, after that he had to go back to finding victims to kill except this time they had to fit a specific theme, but with his new supernatural, (I'm not trying to use the lord's name in vain but) God-like powers like the text said, it should be easier. As a previous troper stated, Joseph commited the Round two murders. He did it against his will, however, whenever he would venture out; that's right, his diary never said he was trapped in his room and we don't have any proof that Joseph carved that hole in Henry's apartment, and in one of Joseph's notes, didn't he say he'll investigate Walter Sullivan's graveyard after all the cops left, meaning he did have a chance to get help if he was really trapped. So Walter possessed Joseph and committed the round two murders all over again. When it's Joseph's turn to be sacrificed, he lets him have control so Joseph can see what he's done so he'll be so overwhelmed with guilt and [despair] that he'll commit suicide to save Walter the effort of having to kill Joseph himself. Then he'd take on the form of another ma n(despite that part not being necessary); notice how Henry didn't move into room 302 right after Joseph died so he wouldn't draw any suspicion. Live a normal life until he runs into the people to sacrifice to his mother, experience some sort of mind boggling truth and commit suicide again in his immortal state, come back to life and the 21 sacraments will be completed.

Let's see; he compelled Walter Sullivan to complete the round one murders, but I believe his evil spirit was still part of Walter Sullivan even after death. In the ending where Henry was the reciever of wisdom, he learned something about himself not someone else so Henry was Walter right? Picking up from my statement above about how Henry is Walter trying to live a normal human life, this is how Valtiel was responsible for the events that occur in the game. While Walter assumed the identity of Henry Townsend and was trying to live normally, Valtiel kept a watchful eye on the young man. He saw that Walter was trying to abandon the task of completing the 21 sacraments because he had two years to do it, evidenced when the game says Henry moved into his apartment two years ago. So the fleshy spirit finally decides to intervene in Walter's life by locking him up in his room, taking over his body at times, and apparently giving him mild schizophrenia.

Being that Henry is an important facet to the 21 sacraments and more importantly that each suitable sacrifice has to be killed in the correct order, Walter wouldn't just let Henry die until the time was right for the sake of his mother. The diary in Henry's apartment is in fact enchanted whether the player knows it or not, and every time he uses it, it stores his life force in it along with his thoughts. That is why when the player chooses to hit the continue option instead of the load option, they will be in a sense respawned (brought back to life) with everything like it was before Henry's supposed death. That's because Henry actually was revived, by dark evil malicious powers that want him dead, ironically. When Henry dies, it's the exact same thing as when he uses the holes to get back in the apartment; he thinks he simply just dazed out and it is his so called wild imagination at work, but all of this is actually happening. When we see Walter for the first time in the game in the subway world, he tries to kill Henry, but even if his does, why doesn't he die for good, being that it will supposedly be the 21st and last sacrifice? Walter is the main source of Henry's diary's protective power, so he should be way stronger than it. It's because Walter doesn't want Henry to die yet, because he's not the Reciever of Wisdom yet. Walter (or better yet, Evil Walter) is just having some fun tormenting Henry and brutally assaulting him while Walter is invunerable (pure sadism), having a little fun time until Henry truly becomes the Reciever of Wisdom (which is Henry learning the truth), which happens after Henry gets baby Walter's umbilical cord and his head starts hurting right after seing a brief glimpse of Walter's real parents. You'll notice that after this happens, Walter Sullivan isn't seen anymore until the final battle, that's because this is when Walter is finally ready to kill Henry because he's officially the Reciever of Wisdom. That's why after you engage in that last battle you can't save or at least even access your save point (diary), because if Walter kills Henry by his hand now, he won't let the diary bring Henry back to life because the sacrifices would be complete and he doesn't need Henry alive anymore. One last thing, the reason why the 21 sacraments ending doesn't play if Henry is killed by Walter (Gameplay) is only for the sake of the gameplay, because the creators wanted each individual ending, no matter how good or how bad, to be played after Henry killed Walter; they wanted the 21 sacraments ending to be achieved depending on how much Henry exorcised his apartment and whether or not Eileen lived.

That's the reason why suddenly "disappeared" from their apartment and abandoned their son. Since the Mother Sect recieves financial rewards for "raising" orphan children, the Silent Hill Smile Support Society (read: the cult) could have been well off. When the player hears what Walter audibly remembers about his parents, they sound like they're trying to elude something more than responsibility, or better yet said someone. It's stated in the game that Walter's parents most likely had financial problems, meaning Walter's parents [[DealWithTheDevil actually made a bargain with the sinister devil-worshipping religous group]]. Walter's parents would "conveniently" abandon their son (Walter), Walter would be eventually discovered by someone (most likely the apartment tenants/employees), then after all the paperwork and other nonsense was done for the baby, he would be conviently assimilated into the Silent Hill "Smile" Support Society, but not without Walter's good for nothing parents receiving financial compensation as well as immunity from future harassment and very possibly murder from the insane cult. Just like there was a logical explanation for what was happening to Henry and he didn't just coincidentally go insane, Walter being abandoned and just suddenly adopted by a orphange like that seems a little too much to be a minor coincidential catalyst that just so happened to spark up all of these catastrophic events. Walter being abandoned then getting adopted by the cult was really planned.